a whirlwind of 80s nostalgia this weekend

Since there's a storm of Biblical proportions going through the Northeast right now (and most of yesterday), we sat and watched movies inside for a good portion of the day. We got a bunch of 80s era movie candy (the stuff you can still get) and watched Short Circuit and Flight of the Navigator back to back with our 8 year old.

Man, they don't make movies like that anymore. Even though they're cutesy kid flicks, there's adult language, complex plot elements, and real technology intermingled with the fantasy.

Now it's explosions and bright colors and 3D effects.

Stupid dumbing down of America.

Also, the storm is fucking up my WAN connection to two other hospitals and making my morning a pain in the ass. The pond behind my house has risen 2 feet so far. It has another 3 to go before it overflows its banks.

Just saw Zathura on the weekend...again...(my daughter absolutely loves that movie, even if the robot scenes are rather gruesome). Great movie ("You know how Dad said we have to grow up? Well, this is what it looks like."..ha! I love that).

You're just reminiscing that your childhood was the golden era of enlightenment, selectively picking the best of a storm of shitty creations and imagining that it was the norm.

>> I actually thought that show was one of the few entertaining parts of the movie. <<

The part I liked was when he went to the hospital, and the clerk had a big board of buttons with icons for stuff like "shot in head", "having a baby", "vomiting", etc. Instead of St. God's Hospital, they should have called it St. Illiterate's Hospital